On Debian and Fedora experiences

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 16:30:11 UTC 2006


On 12/7/06, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:04:23AM +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > Now I have a naive question: does it need a yet another package
> > database to remove, together with xxx, each package on which xxx
> > depends, under the constrain that xxx has to be the ONLY package
> > requiring it?
>
> install yum-utils. run package-cleanup --leaves.
>

great!
So I can: remove package xxx, run package-cleanup --leaves, remove
what is listed there.

I wonder if this nice trick could go into yum. Something like:

yum --clean-leaves remove xxx




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